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The Reverend Ted Haggard was nothing more than "crocodile tears" after he confessed to his followers that he's had immoral sexual thoughts his whole adult life. Reverend Haggard was famous for his "soft soap spinach" talk on the "phoniness" of same sex marriage. There are you happy now. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Don't forget to add a good solid throw of the PC to your list. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I was thinking beers, 4:20 and sex (I know typical male), but your's is a good thing we can all agree on. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Yes. But I'd do myself a big favor by not letting it get to me. But yes it can be annoying at times. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Agreed ... plus not all CPC members are evangelicals. Rona Ambrose if I'm not mistaken is a Libertarian. Time will tell. If he get's all Jesus'y on us, then we know what's going to happen to him. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

That will depend on whether or not there is a handicap. But I'm not organizing this event so I couldn't tell you if the pros can compete in the intermediate event. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Finally, someone who gets it. Socialism is destructive to a functioning society. You should see some of the clowns we have running for office. The US has the hard-core right wingers and Canada has the hard-core lefties. Your Democrates are like our Conservative and our Conservative are like your Democrates (well not exactly, but you get the picture). I'm still trying to get my head around the concept of a former university dropout, turned foodbank worker before becoming a career politician now wanting to be in charge of this country. What can he possibly think he's got in skills and experience to warrant him being elected as the head of state? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I believe Kaz was planning on doing both. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

With all the talk of American politics these days, I think some of you Yanks and all of you Canucks should think about who'll be Canada's next Prime Minister. After all we are stretched to our limits (our fault for neglecting our military for so long) but still pulling our weight ... and then some in Afghanistan. Anyway ... WARNING: This is a long post since it examines the backgrounds of all of our potential PMs. This all started when some people were questioning whether Canada's current PM Stephen Harper was qualified to govern the country. Here are the LIEberal Party's candidates as this corrupt cess pool which resembles a political party is having a leadership race and they still have nine candidates in the running. 1) Michael Ignatieff - Is a respected academic in many peoples eyes. He's kind of been parachuted into the country by the social elite as a Trudeau like savior of the country. Which is all bull soup. He has no real world business experience and he's been out of touch with this country living out of it most of his adult life. So do we want some elitist academic with zero business experience who's been away from the country most of his adult life running the country? 2) Bob Rae - well it appears that Mr Rae has many many academic achievements including obtaining a law degree. But the man has been involved in politics since the late 60s and besides leaving the province of Ontario in massive debt after his failed leadership there, one really must ask if we're ready to let a man with very poor understanding of economics run the country? But he is the only LIEberal candidate with any real world leadership experience. Help us if this zipper head ever gains power since we know he will be chasing business out of this country faster than you can say "what you were expecting me to make a joke". Boob Rae is a dork with little economic credibility. 3) Gerard Kennedy - OMG are people actually thinking this guy knows how to run a country. He dropped out of university and then went on to work at a food bank before getting into politics. You've got to be kidding me. Well we know all the welfare bums in Toronto will be supporting this clown, but what makes him and his supporters think that this man is even remotely close to being qualified to run the country. What's his secret to power? He's got the poster boy good looks with all the promises to change Canada into a more fair equitable for all country type of guy. We're all FUBARed if this clown ever gains power. It's be like having Taliban Jack Layton at the healm. Only this time for real. 4) Stephane Dion - appears to be a likeable guy, but once again what makes him and his supporters think he is remotely qualified to run this country. As a youth he was a Quebec seperatist, before teaching political science at Laval University. What is his real world business experience? It appears to be non-existent. 5) Ken Dryden - well hockey fans will remember this man as one of Canada's greatest hockey hereos. But does that qualify him to run the country? Well he did go on to become a lawyer so I've got to think that he's not dumb. However you know what we say about lawyers. "The first thing we need to do is kill all of the them". Has anyone noticed how angry Mr Dryden has been lately? Do we really want angry emotional people running this country? Oh and one last comment about Mr Dryden. As a youth I idolized Ken Dryden the goalie. But what ever happened to that athlete? People make fun of Harper's man-tits without any mention of Dryden. Ken Dryden should be ashamed of himself for letting a world class athlete as he once was turn into this angry fat man. Then again maybe that is why he is angry, because he's let his health go down the drain. So is an angry, fat, former athlete who became a lawyer qualified to run this country? Careful during Question Period there Ken. We don't want our PM having a heart attack while he's telling us his LIEberal lies. 6) Jon Volpe - worked as a school teacher for 8 years, a mortgage officer for 2 more years before becoming a school principle for 5 years before deciding to become a career politican. Once again, you've got to be kidding me, what kind of experience does this man have that could be applied towards running a country? 7) Scott Brison - started off his career running a small business which rented small fridges before working in corporate sales. Well at least Mr Brison has some business experience (more than can be said for the majority of his LIEberal leadership running mates). But his business experience is hardly close to what's needed to run a country. 8) Martha Hall Findlay - Ms Findlay was an elite ski racer during her youth and while in university she worked as a carpenter, a waitress, a ski racing coach and she operating two small retail stores before earning her law degree. Even though I question Ms Findlay's qualifications to run this country, at least she's been successful in athletics, academics and some small retail business ventures. Plus unlike Mr Dryden, this former athlete didn't turn out to be a fat ####. It appears that the two most credible leadership candidates (if a LIEberal can ever be labeled as credible), are both in last place in this race. It just goes to show how much the LIEberals are still festering in their own slime. But just to show that I'm not picking on just the LIEberal candidates, let's look at some of other other political leader's backgrounds: 1) Jack Layton NDP Leader - Mr Layton comes from a long line of politicians. His great-great-uncle was a father of confederation, his great-grandfather was a political activist, his grand-father was a cabinet minister in a Quebec provincial government and his father was a LIEberal Party activist in the 1960s and 1970s, and served as a member of parliament and cabinet minister in the 1980s. Mr Layton is also a academic professor with absolutely no real world business experience before leaving academia to join the political world. Is there any wonder why the man is full of hot air. Look at the legacy he's got to live up to. 2) Gilles Duceppe Bloc Quebecois Leader - Mr Duceppe studied political science at the Université de Montréal. In his youth, he advocated communism, and was a card-carrying member of the Worker's Communist Party. He later became a trade union negotiator before getting into politics. Now we know we don't need to worry about Gilles becoming PM since he is a self professed Quebec seperatist. But I just thought people should know that here's yet another academic with zero real world business experience who while he may now deny that he's a communist, we know what his socialistic back ground would mean to the business community. 3) Stephen Harper PM and CPC Leader - He graduated in 1978 as the top student of his High School graduating year. He briefly studied at the University of Toronto before travelling to Edmonton, where he found employment in the oil and gas industry as a computer programmer in his early twenties. He later attended the University of Calgary, receiving a Master's degree in economics. Harper is the first prime minister since Lester B. Pearson not to have attended law school. So there you have it folks. Obviously the partisan people will choose to ignore this, but Harper is pretty much the only non-lawyer with any real world business experience (well Mr Brison also has some business experience, but it's limited compared to Harpers). What's that saying we use in the real world? Those who can't do, teach. Virtually everyone else is nothing more than an academic, with a former seperatist, a communist and food bank specialist thrown in the mix. Incredible that some of people fail to factor this into their political affiliations. Then again we know Canadian's are all about "feeling good about themselves" without actually doing anything of real substance. All one needs to do is look at our big cities to see how rapidly they are becoming cess pools of poverty, crime and corruption thanks to Pierre Elliot Trudeau and his socialistic brainwashing much of the nation. Oh and there is a JR Trudeau (Justin) brewing in the pot promising to pick up where his father left off. He's doing his show-biz thing now tailoring himself for that poster boy good looks style whichs works so well on lemmings. You know there will not be any jobs for the masses in these cess pools which resemble our big cities when the left leaning governments drive businesses away. It's the private sector which creates jobs and gets people working. Big unions and government make work projects are nothing more than cancers to economic development. But one wouldn't expect people who've sheltered themselves in academia all their lives to know how business works. Ignorance is bliss ... Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

The longer you delay, the better off I am in knowing if I can make it or not. Then again I'm sure you guys couldn't give a rats ass if I was there or not. Oh and I'm not trying to be antagonistic with what was just said. I'm just being a realist. I do hope to be there though. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

People make mistakes (I know I've made my share) and you're right people here need to move on. Instead of focusing on what happened at the Outback a few days ago, we need to focus on what needs to happen in the future and what we in the BASE community need to do is show more respect to all sites. I forget who said it (it could have been Pope or NickDG or maybe TomA), but regardless of who said it, it's worth repeating: "It takes a lot of time to open up a new site and only seconds to close it". Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I'm hoping to be there. But there are too many unanswered question to say for sure whether or not it will happen. But if I do make it, I sure hope I can get there a couple of days ahead of the big comp so that I can get some much needed practice in. It's just kind of weird to be scheduled this so close to Christmas/New Years holidays. I definitely can't do both. I can't take x-mas holidays and then expect to be on holiday the week after New Years. So I'm still trying to figure out if I can get time off the week after New Years. News at eleven. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I hope I am wrong, but it appears that the Miami Dolphins will be tasked on Dec 31st with trying to prevent the Colts from logging an undefeated regular season (they beat the Bears yesterday, but can they beat the Colts). I doubt none of the other teams which play the Colts between now and then will have any sort of success when it comes to beating Indy. Then who knows what will happen come playoff time. Here's hoping that the Broncos can do away with the Colts (should they meet in the playoffs), but Denver doesn't exactly have a good record with going into Indy during the playoffs and coming away victorious. In fact the Broncos seem to get absolutely pummelled whenever they play Indy in a playoff game. So when all is said and done. The jury is still out as to whether or not Manning is the "clutchest" QB around. But at the moment, he sure is playing well ... and that frustrates me since I don't really like the guy. But what can you do? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

You people need to put your partisan politics to bed. You sound like a bunch of school children. "My Dad has a bigger #### than your Dad". When will you learn that politicians are scum no matter what political party they belong to. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I wish I could argue with you, but I have a female cat and I'm male. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I like [insert your favorite activity here], i just don't like [insert the people who particitpate in your favorite activity here]. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

It's as simple as that. If someone is okay with the chance of themselves dying during a jump, then they will continue to jump. For those who have decided that they didn't want to die while jumping, then they will quit. Everything else concerning who, what, when, where and why are all irrelevant. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I don't kiss men, but since I try not to hold a grudge on people, consider us made up. My post in that incidents forum was related with another person who appeared to be saying that using digital altimeters was a mistake and that's when I chose to confront him telling him that many in the swooping community thought otherwise. At which point BillVon stepped in and made his comments. Since I wasn't in 100% disagreement with Bill, I decided not to debate the issue with him in the incidents forum. But he was the one who brought up the "swooping by beeps" topic. My view is that there is no harm in using any tool that can help you achieve your goal just as long as you're not totally dependent on that tool. I choose to use a visual digital altimeter since I'm often swooping into some sort of swoop course. The visual digital altimeter helps myself gauge the progress I'm making (remember every jump is different) and I'm going to start my turn (or abort it if need be) once I'm over the course and not when an audible altimeter starts beeping. Sometimes I think we argue here on the net for the sake of arguing (I'm just as guilty of this as the next person). For the life of me, I can't possibly think that a swooper would haul down on a front riser simply because their audible is beeping. I've got to think that somewhere along this scenario the swooper will "look" at the ground and say, "looks good, let's do it" or "hmmm .... something is wrong, time to abort". But since people like arguing here on the net, someone invariably feels the need to take the side that "swoopers" are dumb and that they just haul down on the risers when their audibles go off. I know we swoopers have issues (we sure as hell aren't normal), but the non-swoopers sure seem to like to group us into something that we're often not and they don't bother to ask us why we do some of the things that we do. My visual digital altimeter is a very important tool for my swooping. Can I function without it? Yes I can, I did it earlier this summer during practice one day when I forgot my altimeter at home. But I don't like it. My swoops are a million times better when I'm armed with the proper information of knowing what kind of turn I can make when I get to my setup point. Then of course once we start diving our canopies it's all about visual references of knowing when to get off of the front risers. Time to step away from the keyboard for a while ... Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

You better NOT be insinuating that I advocate "swooping by beeps" since that is complete an utter bull crap since I never said such a thing and I challenge you to prove where I said such nonsense. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Expect a lot of blood to be spilled around the world within the next two years. GWB, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the clowns are not done yet with what they originally set out to do and it's obvious that they don't care what the American public thinks any more. I hope you Americans who support GWB are happy in knowing that your man is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people (including thousands of dead Americans) and that these deaths are NOT going to stop any time soon. The world is a much more dangerous place ever since the American people gave GWB the freedom to spread his form of terrorism around the planet. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

It's no secret that alcohol makes people act abusive and violent towards others. A small amount of alcohol in our blood can make us happy. But as soon as too much of it gets in there, we loose our minds and our ability to act rationally. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

No this thread should NOT be deleted. This is not the first time a local Twin Falls resident (who happens to be a BASE jumper) has asked us out of towners to behave better when we frequent Twin Falls businesses. Besides the adrenaline rush aspect, the allure to BASE jumping for many people is the desire to be a rebel in life and to tell "the man" #### ### I'm going to do it anyway regardless of what you say. This is fine and dandy when we're on an object about to flik ourselves off of it. But when we're in a public business (who historically has been very good to people of our type) we need to show more respect to the other patrons, the staff and the owner. We need to leave the "I'm a rebel, look at me, look at how cool I am, I'm not afraid of death" attitude behind when we go to places like the Outback. The whuffo world does not care about what we do, and they are quick to pass judgement on all of us regardless of who they have or haven't encountered. Why all of a sudden in the last 12 months are we dying at such a high rate in this sport? Are there too many of us and this is just a natural statistics thing? Are we taking too many risks thinking that it can't happen to me? Are we not showing the objects we jump enough respect? Do we not have the appropriate knowledge, skills and experience to be doing what we do? Do we think we're immortal? Or worse, do we have a death wish? Despite what some people think of me, I don't want to quit this sport (BASE jumping) but I've decided to step back from it a little to try and figure out what it really means to me and are risks worth the rewards? I think the risks are worth the rewards but only when we start thinking about the quality of our jumps rather than the quantity. Once again BSBD to the deceased and the people who cared about him. Who's next? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

The Perrine Bridge is a gift from the good people of Twin Falls and the state of Idaho to BASE jumpers from all walks of life. We need to start respecting this gift more as it may not be there tomorrow if people take it for granted. Let's start cleaning up our act people. In the last 12 months BASE jumpers have appeared to have taken the wrong fork in the road of life and we're going in at a much higher rate than we should be. BSBD for the deceased as it sounds like he went head low on exit and his bridle wrapped around his leg? ... Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

It's funny that many (not all) Americans were willing to hang Clinton because he got blow job but at the same time many (not all) Americans voluntarily looked the other way when their beloved GWB invaded Iraq and brought death and destruction to countless Iraqis, American and British lives. I guess the Christian God frowns on blow jobs while he promotes death and destruction. FUBAR that's all I have to say. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I'm not a fan of Peyton nor do I care about or follow the Colts. But I think we should bookmark this thread and revisit it at the end of the season since the Colts and Manning are looking very good as a serious Super Bowl threat. Denver (which happens to be my NFL team) has a very good defense and the Colts were able to move the ball at will in the 2nd half of that game. I would like to see the 1972 Miami Dolphins unbeaten 14-0 + playoffs record remain intact. But until the Colts lose this season, that record is in jeopardy ... again. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over